Play-based Exploration

By attending this 3 day training course, you will be able to:

• Make clear why and how evaluating prospects in the context of a play can help the overall soundness and consistency.
• Provide participants with a practical Play-Based Exploration workflow
• Explain how play statistics can be used to further improve our assessment of prospects and remaining potential
• Demonstrate that evaluating prospects in the context of plays is both rewarding and fun

This course is designed primarily for geoscientists working in exploration and their direct supervisors. The course is also very applicable and useful for staff from other disciplines working closely with exploration staff, such as reservoir engineers, petrophysicists and prospect portfolio analysts.

• Intermediate

Your expert course instructor has a PhD in Geology from the University of Utrecht. He joined Shell in 1979 as an exploration geologist, and worked in several locations around the world (Netherlands, Gabon, USA, Australia, Argentina, Malaysia) in technical and management positions. During the last ten years of his career, he was responsible for the quality assurance of Shell’s exploration prospects in many parts of the world and for upgrading and replenishing Shell’s global exploration portfolio.

During this period, he has also developed extensive expertise in Prospect Risk and Volume assessments for which he ran successful internal training programmes. Following his retirement from Shell in 2010, he took on a position as part time professor at the University of Amsterdam and he is also working as consultant exploration advisor for various E&P companies.

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To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized “One to One” coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster.
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